Threads Explosion, Student Debt Fight, Affirmative Action Future

Threads Explosion [01:45]

Introducing Threads: A New Way to Share With Text (Meta, 7/5/23)
The Rapid Rise of Threads Appears to Be Hurting Twitter (Wall Street Journal, 7/10/23)
Threads is All The Worst Parts of Twitter And Instagram in One Very Bad App (VICE, 7/7/23)
Threads Takes on Twitter (New York Times, 7/9/23)
The Daily: Will Threads Kill Twitter? (New York Times, 7/10/23)
Like Gen Z’s Takeover Of Twitter’ (Forbes, 7/8/23)Instagram’s Threads surpasses 100 million users (The Verge, 7/10/23)
Some investors are backing both Twitter and Threads maker Meta (Axios, 7/10/23)
Meta is finally having its moment with the Twitter alternative Threads (Vox, 7/10/23)
5 Reasons Why Twitter Should Be Worried About Meta’s Threads (Make Use Of, 7/10/23)
Threads vs. Twitter: The ultimate battle has begun (Data Economy, 7/10/23)
Twitter’s Threads Threat to Meta Turns on What’s Under the Hood (Bloomberg Law, 7/10/23)
Elon Musk goes low against Zuckerberg as Twitter-Threads spat intensifies (The Guardian, 7/10/23)
Australian firm sues Twitter for unpaid bills (Washington Times, 7/7/23)
It looks like Twitter still isn’t paying its office bills (Yahoo, 7/4/23)
Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time (The Atlantic, 7/3/23)
Elon Musk Tweets: Zuck is a Cuck/Dick Measuring Contest (Twitter)
Threads Users ‘Trapped’ As They Realize You Can’t Delete The App Without Deleting Instagram Too (Bored Panda, 7/10/23)
Threads to Add $8 Billion to Meta Annual Revenue by 2025, Analyst Says (Bloomberg, 7/10/23)
How Threads’ Privacy Policy Compares to Twitter’s (and Its Rivals’) (WIRED, 7/8/23)

Student Debt Fight [17:10]

Supreme Court strikes down Biden student-loan forgiveness program (SCOTUSblog, 6/30/23)
Americans with student debt back at square one after supreme court ruling (The Guardian, 7/8/23)
How Biden Might Try to Cancel Student Debt Next (New York Times, 7/10/23)
Student loans: How borrowers should prepare after the Supreme Court ruling (CBS News, 7/8/23)
‘This decision is a slap in the face’: the real cost of the US student debt ruling (The Guardian, 7/5/23)
Student debt: Democrats seek to galvanize young voters over Supreme Court ruling (The Hill, 7/8/23)
Statement from President Joe Biden on Supreme Court Decision on Student Loan Debt Relief (The White House, 6/30/23)
FTC warns about student loan scams following Supreme Court decision (CNBC, 7/5/23)
Supreme Court ruling on Biden’s student debt handout is much bigger than you think (Fox News, 7/6/23)
Bloomberg Wealth: Is a College Education Still Worth the Price? (Bloomberg, 7/6/23)
Biden Officials Take First Step To Create New Student Loan Forgiveness Plan (Forbes, 7/5/23)
Should Biden Forgive Student Loan Debt? (Imbroglio, 5/4/23)

Affirmative Action Future [32:25]

How To Fix College Admissions Now (New York Times, 7/5/23)
Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action programs in college admissions (SCOTUS Blog, 6/29/23)
Colleges should apply affirmative action—based on needs, not race (New York Post, 7/3/23)
Don’t stop at affirmative action: End college legacy admissions too (New York Post, 6/21/23)
‘Race neutral’ replaces affirmative action. What’s next? (CNN, 7/1/23)
How The End Of Affirmative Action Reroutes The Talent Pipeline (Forbes, 7/9/23)
‘Race neutral’ replaces affirmative action. What’s next? (CNN, 7/1/23)
A surprisingly muted reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action (Brookings Institute, 7/7/23)
Latinx Files: Affirmative action is dead. What’s next? (Los Angeles Times, 7/6/23)
The fallout from the Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision has already begun (The 19thsubsta, 7/10/23)
The facts about affirmative action didn’t change. The court did. (The Hill, 7/10/23)
Why It’s Time for Legacy College Admissions to Go (TIME, 5/8/23)
The Liberal Maverick Fighting Race-Based Affirmative Action (New York Times, 3/29/23)